Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Thomas Pennant: A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides (1772)

Nicholas Crane pieces together the route which Thomas Pennant took for his masterwork, A Tour in Scotland.

Readers of pioneer, scientist and explorer Thomas Pennant's masterwork, A Tour in Scotland, learned about rocks that could overpower a compass or prove the real age of the Earth, and about a people teetering on the edge of starvation. Can Nicholas Crane piece together the route which Pennant took and solve the puzzle at the heart of it - why Pennant turned back at Ledbeg in Sutherland and undertook an 18-mile trek through rain, bogs and mountains to the obscure island of Inchmaree?

1 hour

Last on

Sun 18 Apr 2010 16:00
麻豆社 HD

More episodes

Previous

You are at the first episode

Next

William Gilpin's Observations on the River Wye (1783)

See all episodes from Great British Journeys

Credit

Presenter Nicholas Crane

Broadcasts

  • Tue 14 Aug 2007 20:00
    麻豆社 Two except East & Yorkshire
  • Thu 16 Aug 2007 19:00
    麻豆社 Two England, Scotland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Wed 24 Oct 2007 03:05
    麻豆社 One
  • Sun 18 Apr 2010 16:00
    麻豆社 HD